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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

there was no such devel op men tal proc ess in the cell's for -
ma tion. The evo lu tion ist biol o gist Hoimar von Ditfurth
admits this:

When we look back, we see that we need not be sur prised that we
have been una ble to find those tran si tion al forms so almost pain -
ful ly sought. Because in all like li hood, no such inter me di ate
stage ever hap pened. What we know today shows that the
gen er al prin ci ple of the uni verse is not a real i ty here, and
that it is out of the ques tion for the prim i tive cell to have
devel oped in sta ges and to have even tu al ly turned into a
cell with a nucle us and organ elles. 8
The cell can per form its func tions only if all its ele ments
and attrib utes exist, fully formed. Professor David
Rosevear, a mem ber of the British Royal Chemistry Society
refers to the cell func tion ing when it exists as a whole:
With the devel op ment of molec u lar biol o gy since the time of
Oparin and Haldane, the cell is no longer regard ed as sim ple.
The liv ing plas ma mem brane allows in or out only spe cif ic com -
pounds. It is not sim ply a semi-per me a ble mem brane. Cells con -
tain nucle ic acids that carry infor ma tion about the struc ture
and func tions of the organ ism. They also con tain ribos o mes
where pro teins are made using a com plex mech a nism of nucle ic
acids and more than a hun dred dif fer ent pro teins, each with a
spe cif ic task. The cell also con tains mito chon dria where ener gy
(ATP) is pro duced. The com plex i ty of all these parts of the cell
is enor mous . . . . However, these com po nents can not now exist
inde pend ent ly, nor could the cell exist with out their con tri bu -
tions. . . . With all the amaz ing ly com plex, mutu al ly-
depend ent com po nents, it seems that the cell had to be
com plete from the begin ning, rath er than being assem bled
piece meal over years of evo lu tion. 9

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